Saturday, February 17, 2018

Sanctimony And Hypocrisy From Europe After Florida Shooting

The shooting deaths
of pupils at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida is
another tragedy in a long list of tragedies that have befallen
innocent Americans as they go about their daily lives.

After such a
horrific incident it is right and proper that vigorous debate takes
place to find the causes of the tragedy and to discuss possible
solutions to prevent further tragedies in the future.

That is obviously
too grown up for so-called ‘progressives’ and their
fellow travelers on the left who didn’t waste a minute politicizing
the incident to push their anti-gun agenda and those from
the deep state who used the tragedy in their ongoing effort to
tarnish President Trump and remove him from office.

What is truly absurd
about this tragedy is the sanctimonious outpourings
of some British people and their fellow hypocrites in Europe.

While some of these people are ordinary folks who expressed an emotionally triggered reaction,
many are leftists who are using the tragedy to give voice to their
inherent anti-Americanism while others are putting on display their
Trump Derangement Syndrome they acquired through propaganda-induced
groupthink.

While the
sanctimonious fall over themselves to voice their opinions on tragic
incidents in America they conveniently forget the mass killings on
their own doorstep about which they remain silent.

An oft repeated
sentiment is that children should be allowed to go to school without
fear of being shot and killed; this is true but using the same logic
people should be allowed to attend a concert or travel to work
without being blown up in the concert hall or on the transport system or being mowed down as
they walk on pedestrian walkways.

Awful and soul
destroying as they are, the seventeen murdered teenagers in Florida pale into
insignificance compared to the eighty-nine murdered teenagers at the
2015 Bataclan concert in Paris and the twenty-two murdered teenagers
at the Manchester concert in 2017.

Fifty-two innocent
people were killed in the 7/7 London Transport bombings in 2005,
twenty-one people were killed in Brussels subway bombing in 2016
while on the same day fourteen were killed at the Brussels Airport.

Again using the same
logic people should be allowed to celebrate national holidays and
shop at a festive market without being killed and maimed by vehicles driven
by terrorists.

Eighty-six people,
including children, were killed when they were mown down by a vehicle
while celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France in 2016.

Eleven people were
killed when they attended a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany in
2016.

Fourteen people were
mown down and killed in the Westminster and London Bridge attacks.

Five people were
mown down and killed in the Stockholm attacks.

Fourteen were mown
down and killed in the Barcelona attacks and so it goes on the same as it does
in America, innocent people in Great Britain and Europe are being
killed while going about their daily lives.

The cry goes up that
it's the availability of guns in America that is responsible for these
mass killings and therefore they should be banned by the government.

Since all the
killings mentioned above have been perpetrated by Muslims using
vehicles, home made explosives and guns, why are the same people not
calling for a ban on Muslims, vehicles and the ingredients for home made explosives? It must be borne in mind that AK-47 assault rifles are already banned but that doesn't seam to bother the terrorists.

The answer to the question is a
mixture of the emotional need to indulge in public virtue signaling
or political activism in the case of American tragedies and cowardice
in the case of British and European ones.

It’s easy to shout
from the rooftops that guns should be banned in America but only the
courageous would risk shouting equally as loud for Muslims to banned
from PC-controlled Great Britain and the European Union nation
states.

The sanctimonious
hypocrites in Great Britain and Europe are saying that thoughts and
prayers are not enough, urgent action is required to prevent future
tragedies when that is all they get from their own leaders after every
Muslim atrocity accompanied by a #hashtag campaign, a light show and a patronising lecture about how it is nothing to do with Islam.

The British and
European people need to educate themselves on why firearms are
available to citizens in America. The Founding Fathers drafted the
2nd Amendment to the Constitution to allow citizens to
protect themselves and their families as well as protecting the Republic
from external enemies from without and internal enemies from within. (See 2nd Amendment articlehere)

Maybe if the people
of Great Britain and Europe had similar rights their leaders would
not have surrendered national sovereignty to the EU autocrats their
democracies would still be intact and their descent into third world
shithole status avoided.